This series is nothing like Sir David's "Life of Mammels." Here, Every episode is a montage of footage from many other docs including Apple's Earth at Night series. Insects are shown as fillers. Lots of $$ & time was spent to make Sir David's 98+ yr old failing voice 15 yrs younger, by inserting old enhanced clips. His narration switches from when he was 60 to 85,
If you've been an avid nature doc watcher who also bought the DVDs, streaming shows, save programs in DVR, you will see many of same clips. The few "new" clips are ones edited out from previous docs, enhanced & inserted here.
Sadly despite all the editing to make this series appear new by inserting 15 yr old enhanced clips with younger Sur David narrating, causes the series to be Disneyfied, meaning nothing bad is shown.. It's certainly not even a good BBC doc. "Perfect Planet " & Apples "Year the Earth" changed are the last 2 truly new & fascinating docs from Sir David, showing how this planet & every drop of water is ALL CONNECTED with wildlife being 24/7 custodians. Without wildlife, there's no wild places - fact repeatedly proven in 20+ yrs. Independent films Plastic Planet, Intelligence of Trees; Seasons; old but still good NG Volcano doc made in 1990s narrated by J..Irons (Prime) are all ground breaking.
Re BBC: "Frozen Planet 2" was last solid groundbreaking doc proving how PPL are THE MAIN problem & WE control our future by cherishing last few intake wild natural places, managing resources esp seas, or through apathy & short term greed, we let this once global paradise die, dooming our own future.
Remedy: Our global CONSUMER purchasing power & bit of behavior modification that aids our health & pocket book is all it takes to stop this drastic death of our planet.
The CURE: For those who DON'T know simple remedy/ cure: 1. Eat 2 vegan meals every week &.
2. Weather proof one's home. That's it.
Bonus: Stop eating all poisoned sea life/ creatures loaded with 10-20x toxins, mercury, lead, & centuries of human chemical waste. Eat omega PLANTS or capsules bc fish do NOT POSSESS omegas- fish eat omega greens. DO NOT eat Krill pills bc ALL sea life depends on krill, esp Blue whales who CREATE KRILL& plankton via fertilization- proven facts by scientists. Without polar ice that's melting faster in past 1 MIL YRS, there's no habitats for krill/ plankton - foundation for all corals, fish & sea mammal life. Farmed fish & shrimp are ALL diseased- see "Seaspiracy" filmed in 2009, Plastuc Planet 2010, Netflix Chasing Coral 2007, & Frozen Planet 2 (2012).
Re THIS series. It's OK for toddlers but to show decades old enhanced clips of pristine ecosystems that are EXTINCT & shown as "current" is a DISSERVICE to those who do not regularly watch nature docs, once free on PBS like all TV once was 10 yrs ago, nor read / listen to scientists re state of our rapidly changing planet. This is esp an illusion to young kids / adults who must live / survive their entire lives in a dying planet with truly unstable weather that increases YRLY, including release of tons of instinction level methane bc of daily melting ice caps, no creation / retention of annual sea ice, & MASS wildlife extinction that stores same killer methane for HUMAN benefit.
Nature has been giving PPL loads of escalating warnings since 1980 - are we listening?
